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From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: ATM screen performance on low-end Mac's?
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.011505.24702@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 2 Feb 91 01:15:05 GMT
References: <10433@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <397@aria.ascend.com>
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Organization: Southwestern Bell Advanced Technology Laboratory
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In article <397@aria.ascend.com> sanford@aria.ascend.com (Curtis Sanford) writes:
>Does anyone have any comment on the performance of ATM on low end machines such
>as the Classic?  It seems that outlining fonts could add a CPU burden, and
>the performance of these machines with programs such as Hypercard is already
>distinctly sluggish.  I don't care about print time so much as screen
>updates and generation.


I haven't noticed any terrible speed problems on my SE with ATM (It's the latest version of ATM).  My biggest gripe is when I pull down the font menu for some
programs, it takes forever for the menu to be generated.  This isn't SE
specific, it occurs on my IIcx, too.  Maybe my font cache is set to low?

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